Wednesday, September 30, 2015

How eHarmony’s ( Australia ) date with data has lifted customer conversions

http://www.cmo.com.au/article/585688/how-eharmony-date-data-has-lifted-customer-conversions-engagement/


CMO speaks exclusively to the senior marketing manager at eHarmony about how an audience segmentation project has opened up a whole new avenue of target, customer-focused digital marketing.


Spanish version of eHarmony in progress!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/spanish-version-of-eharmony-in-progress.html


eHarmony, is a 15 years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/factor-structure-psychometric.html


The normative BIG5 model (a.k.a. Big Five, FFI, FFM, Five Factor Model, OCEAN model) to measure personality of daters had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess personality of persons. Now it was replaced by HEXACO test, a.k.a Big Six test. The BIG5 normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago. The BIG5 is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.

As some of the subdomains of the main domains of the HEXACO model are different from the subdomains of the main domains of the Big Five model, it can not be simple added the scale of the Honesty-Humility factor to the Big Five model to upgrade the personality test to the HEXACO model.

".. the Big Five's Agreeableness and HEXACO's Agreeableness are not identical. The Big Five factors do not include an Honesty-Humility factor, but some of the characteristics belonging to Honesty-Humility are incorporated into the Big Five's Agreeableness factor. Although earlier investigations found only the Big Five factors, more recent studies conducted in various languages (including English) with larger sets of adjectives recovered six factors. "


Many C-level executives (Management Teams of several online dating sites) are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
I think, legally, online dating sites using the Big Five model of personality could be considered a FRAUD because they are using an incomplete model of personality. They are assessing 5 scales and not 6 scales. 

The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats.



Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better .

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

 
Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

How 40,000 'women' on AshleyMadison shared just six email addresses

How 40,000 'women' on AshleyMadison shared just six email addresses - all of them owned by the affairs website itself

  •     A data scientist has figures he claims show the site generated fake profiles
  •     Jeremy Bullock, says the fake users, known Ashley Angels, were used on a huge scale
  •     They even started chats to create the illusion they wanted a relationship
  •     But these messages were found to be generic and computer-generated
  •     Up to 80 per cent of new members spoke with people who didn't exist, according to Bullock
  •     Graphs show that the 'engager' profiles doubled monthly revenue 
  •     Ashley Madison has constantly denied it set up these automated users
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3252427/How-40-000-women-Ashley-Madison-shared-just-six-email-addresses-owned-cheating-website-itself.html

Please read also:

2 tips about Ashley Madison's "Ashley’s Angels"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/2-tips-about-ashley-madisons-ashleys.html
 

article about: How the Ashley Madison saga started!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/article-about-how-ashley-madison-saga.html

 

AshleyMadison, How to Snare Millions of Men with Web Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/ashleymadison-how-to-snare-millions-of.html
 

   

AshleyMadison sinking ship
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/ashleymadison-sinking-ship.html

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

The Swiss Online Dating Market by Metaflake


http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100018589/100778419
https://www.singleboersen-vergleich.ch/presse/online-dating-markt-schweiz-2014-2015.pdf

Please see also:
NEW! European Online Dating Market report 2014 - 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/new-european-online-dating-market.html


Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better .
The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Monday, September 28, 2015

Die Phantomfrauen von Parwise

http://m.welt.de/print/wams/wirtschaft/article146898300/Die-Phantomfrauen-von-Parwise.html
Nähe zu dubiosen Dating-Portalen? Medienanwalt Höcker widerspricht Welt-Bericht
http://meedia.de/2015/06/29/naehe-zu-dubiosen-dating-portalen-medienanwalt-hoecker-widerspricht-welt-bericht/
Ashley Madison, Lovoo und jetzt Parwise: immer neue Fake-Vorwürfe gegen Dating-Portale
http://meedia.de/2015/09/28/ashley-madison-lovoo-und-jetzt-parwise-immer-neue-fake-vorwuerfe-gegen-dating-portale/


Lovoo fake profiles BIG scandal soon?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/lovoo-fake-profiles-big-scandal-soon.html


Please read also: article about: How the Ashley Madison saga started!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/article-about-how-ashley-madison-saga.html

AshleyMadison, How to Snare Millions of Men with Web Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/ashleymadison-how-to-snare-millions-of.html
 

 
A former employee of Affinitas GmbH. that says in a review they create fake profiles from inside?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/a-former-employee-of-affinitas-gmbh.html

SA article IAC Interactive Has Gone On Sale With Catalysts Looming

http://seekingalpha.com/article/3533246-iac-interactive-has-gone-on-sale-with-catalysts-looming


Summary
  • Shares of IAC have fallen 20% while the company is in the midst of monetizing its greatest asset, Tinder, in anticipation of an IPO later this year.
  • The PlentyofFish acquisition bolsters the company's Match Group business with a complementary user base that can also be eventually monetized using its freemium ad-supported model.
  • Search revenue is being impacted by the AdSense changes made recently at Google, depressing search revenue. Negotiations could be completed by the year end.

but ...
Moody's says IAC/InterActiveCorp's possible debt raise at Match for PlentyofFish acquisition could lead to ratings downgrade
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/moodys-says-iacinteractivecorps.html

The Match Group had been doing all wrong, acquiring rotten companies to show illusory success to its investors.
They Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more. Even Tinder will not monetize as expected.
The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.
 
Please see also:
U.S.A. Mobile App Report / 2015 (comScore Report)  Tinder has less than 2 million active average daily users (and perhaps Tinder annual revenue is less than USD10 Million). 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/usa-mobile-app-report-2015-comscore.html
PlentyOfFish (POF), Zoosk, Badoo, OKCupid and others are not even mentioned. It seems they do not exist in the mobile space.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/zoosk-and-badoo-badoo-and-zoosk.html

SNAP Interactive (STVI)
http://www.snap-interactive.com/investor-relations/
http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/STVI/stocktalks

SPARK Networks (LOV)
http://investor.spark.net
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3404685-spark-networks-inc-s-lov-ceo-michael-egan-on-q2-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript

MeetMe (MEET)
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3377685-meetmes-meet-ceo-geoffrey-cook-on-q2-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript

Also (MOMO)
http://seekingalpha.com/news/2531026-momo-reports-q1-results

ZOOSK failed its IPO (ZSK)
http://secfilings.com/SearchResults.aspx?name=zoosk
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2567225-zoosk-ipo-the-offering-price-is-everything

Here more info
from eHarmony Inc.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/13/business/la-fi-eharmony-20121214
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/13/business/la-fi-eharmony-20121214/2

about Online Dating Industry
http://bit.ly/1VqAhxl
http://on.wsj.com/1VqAh0r

The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations.

Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
https://angel.co/online-dating

The innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.

Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.

Please see: 800+ online dating startups at Angel List ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/833-online-dating-startups-at-angel-list.html

Thursday, September 24, 2015

ARTICLE: The love business: How Venntro / Globals Personals (Whitelabel dating) set up a GBP43.2 Million dating network


http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/the-love-business-how-ross-williams-set-up-a-432m-dating-network/11075.article

Three reasons you should be watching them

1. Venntro is the largest privately owned dating company in Europe and the world’s fastest growing privately-owned online dating provider.

2. Venntro has 1,700 commercial partners, 25,000 sites and 45 million members worldwide, leaving the group with a significant share of the online dating market in all major English-speaking territories.

3. The business founders credit their success to using their products to help them get to know what consumers; both are now married to partners they met online.


Something strange. Who can investigate further please?
 

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Moody's says IAC/InterActiveCorp's possible debt raise at Match

for PlentyofFish acquisition could lead to ratings downgrade
https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-says-IACInterActiveCorps-possible-debt-raise-at-Match-for-PlentyofFish--PR_335098


Please see:
U.S.A. Mobile App Report / 2015 (comScore Report) 

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/usa-mobile-app-report-2015-comscore.html
PlentyOfFish (POF), Zoosk, Badoo, OKCupid and others are not even mentioned. It seems they do not exist in the mobile space.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/zoosk-and-badoo-badoo-and-zoosk.html
The Match Group had been doing all wrong, acquiring rotten companies to show illusory success to its investors.
They Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more. Even Tinder will not monetize as expected.
The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.

 

PlentyOfFish is past its prime and of course in decadence.
The market share of PlentyOfFish by revenue is less than 5% in the Online Dating Industry.
http://bit.ly/1VqAhxl
http://on.wsj.com/1VqAh0r
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/a-graphic-showing-decadence-of-pof.html

U.S.A. Mobile App Report / 2015 (comScore Report)




www.comscore.com/layout/set/popup/content/download/31497/1802935/version/1/file/2015_US_Mobile_App_Report.pdf

Millennials Boast Huge Social Networking Growth and Engagement on Smartphones, But Older Users Surprisingly Outpace Them on Tablets
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Blog/Millennials-Boast-Huge-Social-Networking-Growth-and-Engagement-on-Smartphones

Tinder is the only one online dating application mentioned in U.S.A. Mobile App Report / 2015 (comScore Report)
It has less than 2 million active average daily users (and perhaps Tinder annual revenue is less than USD10 Million).
PlentyOfFish (POF), Zoosk, Badoo, OKCupid and others are not even mentioned. It seems they do not exist in the mobile space.


http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/zoosk-and-badoo-badoo-and-zoosk.html

PlentyOfFish is past its prime and of course in decadence.
The market share of PlentyOfFish by revenue is less than 5% in the Online Dating Industry.
http://bit.ly/1VqAhxl
http://on.wsj.com/1VqAh0r
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/a-graphic-showing-decadence-of-pof.html

The Match Group had been doing all wrong, acquiring rotten companies to show illusory success to its investors.
They Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, FriendScout24, OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more. Even Tinder will not monetize as expected.
The Match Group is not going to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry in the next years.


Social dating is vaporware. 
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. 
It needs to reduce the false positives problem and big data dating IS NOT the key to long-lasting romance. The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
 

Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry! 

 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html


and see:

Ms. Mary Meeker's 2015 Internet Trends: The evolution during 20 years.
one word overview: STAGNATION
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/ms-mary-meekers-2015-internet-trends.html


U.S.A. Digital Future in Focus 2015 (comScore Report) http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/usa-digital-future-in-focus-2015.html

It is not mobile, it is multi-platform; comScore reports http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/it-is-not-mobile-it-is-multi-platform.html

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

THESIS Recommender Systems for Online Dating


https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/156542
https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/156542/andrewsthesis.pdf?sequence=2


Please see:

PAPERS and PRESENTATION from EMPIRE 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/papers-and-presentation-from-empire-2015.html


Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/paper-personalized-recommendation.html 

That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits of their users. They need to calculate personality similarity between users.

In case you had not noticed, recommender systems are morphing to compatibility matching engines, as the same used in the Online Dating Industry. 


 Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns. Oh that is exactly ............ guess ............. yes ........ LIFEPROJECT METHOD, ready since 2001!
All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.
 
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html 


The next wave of innovation!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
 

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 

Spanish version of eHarmony in progress!







In U.S. Visit, Pope Francis Will Deliver 4 Speeches In English, 14 In Spanish
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/15/440609771/in-u-s-tour-pope-francis-will-deliver-4-speeches-in-english-14-in-spanish
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/09/16/pope-francis-english-language/

eHarmony 15th Anniversary, A BIG HOAX  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/eharmony-15th-anniversary-big-hoax.html

 eHarmony to Launch Globalization Initiative; Company Expects Subscriber Base to Grow 40-50% in 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/eharmony-to-launch-globalization.html


eHarmony, is a 15 years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/factor-structure-psychometric.html

The normative BIG5 model (a.k.a. Big Five, FFI, FFM, Five Factor Model, OCEAN model) to measure personality of daters had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess personality of persons. Now it was replaced by HEXACO test, a.k.a Big Six test. The BIG5 normative personality test is the biggest mistake Psychologists made since several years ago. The BIG5 is also known as the Five Factor Model theory of personality traits, a psychological model based on research by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae.

As some of the subdomains of the main domains of the HEXACO model are different from the subdomains of the main domains of the Big Five model, it can not be simple added the scale of the Honesty-Humility factor to the Big Five model to upgrade the personality test to the HEXACO model.

".. the Big Five's Agreeableness and HEXACO's Agreeableness are not identical. The Big Five factors do not include an Honesty-Humility factor, but some of the characteristics belonging to Honesty-Humility are incorporated into the Big Five's Agreeableness factor. Although earlier investigations found only the Big Five factors, more recent studies conducted in various languages (including English) with larger sets of adjectives recovered six factors. "


Many C-level executives (Management Teams of several online dating sites) are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.
I think, legally, online dating sites using the Big Five model of personality could be considered a FRAUD because they are using an incomplete model of personality. They are assessing 5 scales and not 6 scales. 

The 4 biggest eHarmony's copycats.



Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better .

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

 
Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Monday, September 21, 2015

Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling) under fraud investigation in Russia.



http://gursesintour.com/luchshee-v-seti/vymogatelstvom-deneg-u-polzovatelej-sajta-znakomstv-edarling-zajmyotsya-prokuratura-i-rospotrebnadzor/118317/
http://neelov.ru/20931-sajtom-internet-znakomstv-edarling-zajtetsya-prokuratura.html
http://wordyou.ru/vibor-redakc/65686.html
http://softcraze.com/strv47089/

CONFIRMED eDarling GAME OVER in Turkey!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/confirmed-edarling-game-over-in-turkey.html

USA FTC to investigate Affinitas GmbH. online dating site EliteSingles for overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/usa-ftc-to-investigate-affinitas-gmbh_1.html

Affinitas GmbH. German company, from one server to another. part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/affinitas-gmbh-german-company-from-one.html

EliteSingles USA by Affinitas GmbH. (copycat of eHarmony) Can not take off
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/elitesingles-usa-by-affinitas-gmbh.html

Affinitas GmbH. fired whole team from its casual site ShopAMan.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/affinitas-gmbh-fired-whole-team-from.html

Affinitas GmbH. 2013 financials. Revenue and Net Loss.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/affinitas-gmbh-2013-financials-revenue.html


eDarling/EliteSingles 20 phantom online dating sites by Alexa ?
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.cl
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.mx
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.at
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.ch
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.it
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.se
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.nl
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.cz
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.no
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitedating.be
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elittars.hu
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.eliittikumppani.fi
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.partnermedniveau.dk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.partnernaurovni.sk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ie
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com.au
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.nz
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ca
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.za

I remember "When India and then Pakistan tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, they did so underground. Preparing a nuclear test this way generates the kind of activity that an
intelligence agency should be able to pick up with months of above-ground site preparation visible in satellite imagery, but at the time the CIA managed to miss it. However, seismologists were able to find out about the tests almost instantly, and were able to determine both the location and the likely range of nuclear explosive power from the tests of Pakistan and India." Alexa is like a seismograph station for Internet sites. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/alexa-seismograph-station-for-internet.html
I think Alexa is right, something very big happened.

Can any of you investigate further please?
If any of you can create some dummy profiles to test how those sites operate, if you receive lots of suggested partners and then happens the same in this UK case?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/11497550/I-spent-1300-on-a-dating-agency-that-had-run-out-of-men.html

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Lovoo fake profiles BIG scandal soon?

Dating-Plattform Lovoo im Fake-Verdacht

Dating-Apps versprechen den unbeschwerten Flirt: schnell, unverbindlich und weitgehend kostenfrei. c’t zugespielte Dokumente legen allerdings nahe, dass Nutzern auf der großen Flirt-Plattform Lovoo mit unlauteren Tricks Geld aus der Tasche gezogen wird.
http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2015-21-Dating-Plattform-Lovoo-im-Fake-Verdacht-2819596.html

Computermagazin berichtet über mögliche Fake-Profile | Abzock-Verdacht bei Dating-Portal Lovoo
http://www.bild.de/digital/internet/dating-portal/zockt-lovoo-seine-nutzer-ab-ct-bericht-42628370.bild.html

Dating app 'tricks users with fake profiles'
http://www.thelocal.de/20150918/dating-app-tricks-users-with-fake-profiles

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/lovoo-flirt-app-im-verdacht-fake-profile-zu-nutzen-a-1053496.html

Please read also:

article about: How the Ashley Madison saga started!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/article-about-how-ashley-madison-saga.html

AshleyMadison, How to Snare Millions of Men with Web Bots
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/ashleymadison-how-to-snare-millions-of.html
 

 
A former employee of Affinitas GmbH. that says in a review they create fake profiles from inside?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/a-former-employee-of-affinitas-gmbh.html

Friday, September 18, 2015

Zoosk and Badoo --- Badoo and Zoosk. September 2015 decadence




http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.badoo.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.zoosk.com
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=tinder,+badoo,+plentyoffish,+zoosk,+pof,+internet+dating&cmpt=q

My bet: BOTH ZOOSK AND BADOO WILL RUN OUT OF MONEY SOON, THEY WILL COLLAPSE.

Badoo redesigned
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/badoo-redesigned.html

article at vator How does Zoosk make money?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/06/article-at-vator-how-does-zoosk-make.html

 No IPO for Zoosk
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/no-ipo-for-zoosk.html

Zoosk October 2013 redesign
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/zoosk-october-2013-redesign.html

Likeli, LikeIt, LikeBright, 12Like and more.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/likeli-likeit-likebright-12like-and-more.html

A graphic showing the decadence of POF (PlentyOfFish) since 2013
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/07/a-graphic-showing-decadence-of-pof.html


Many C-level executives (Management Teams of several online dating sites) are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/new-european-online-dating-market.html  
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

Thursday, September 17, 2015

NEW! European Online Dating Market report 2014 - 2015



Dating-Markt 2014-2015: Cash mit Smartphone-Singles
http://www.singleboersen-vergleich.de/presse/online-dating-markt-2014-2015.pdf

http://www.presseportal.de/pm/67085/3124372


Please see also:
Online Dating 2015 Sector Report
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/online-dating-2015-sector-report.html


Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)  http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/some-online-dating-market-reports.html
Matching algorithms and data will decide who wins the Online Dating game 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/matching-algorithms-and-data-will.html

Online Dating Market in the UK: GPB 165 Million
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/online-dating-market-in-uk-gpb-165.html
Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html   

Many C-level executives (Management Teams of several online dating sites) are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better .

The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html 

PAPERS and PRESENTATION from EMPIRE 2015


https://empire2015recsys.wordpress.com/program/
3rd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems 2015, in conjunction with the ACM RecSys 2015 conference in Vienna (Austria) on 19. September 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/the-9th-acm-conference-on-recommender.html
 

Presentation: Personality in Recommender Systems
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2815363
"The personality-based recommender systems (RS) has emerged as a new type of RS in recent years, given that personality contains valuable information enabling systems to better understand users' preferences. This presentation first gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in this area, including the approaches developed for enhancing collaborative filtering (CF) by computing users' or items' personality similarity, as well as the one that incorporates personality into matrix factorization to predict items that users are able to rate for active learning.
We then discuss several open issues. One issue is how to utilize personality to improve recommendation diversity. Diversity refers to the system's ability in returning different items in one set, which may help users more effectively explore the product space and discover unexpected items. Our recent studies identified the effect of personality on users' diversity differences, and demonstrated that people perceive the system, which considers personality in adjusting recommendations' diversity degree, more competent and satisfying.
We also show how to acquire personality through unobtrusive and implicit way, so as to save users' efforts in answering personality quizzes. Through testing an inference model in movie domain that unifies both types of domain-dependent and -independent features for deriving users' personality from their behavior, we proved that the implicitly inferred personality can also be helpful to augment the system's recommendation accuracy.
Other open issues include how to develop personality-based cross domain RS for addressing the critical cold-start problem, how to exploit the influence of personality on users' emotions for boosting context-aware RS, and how to elicit more domain-independent features for generalizing the personality inference procedure."


Papers:
- A Multimodal Framework for Recognizing Emotional Feedback in Conversational Recommender Systems
- Discount Sensitive Recommender System for Retail Business
- Predicting Personality Traits with Instagram Pictures
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2809644
- A General Architecture for an Emotion-aware Content-based Recommender System
- A Multimodal System For Nonverbal Human Feature Recognition In Emotional Framework
- Emotion in Consumer Simulations for the Development and Testing of Recommendations for Marketing Strategies


Please see:
PAPER On the Role of Personality Traits in Followee Recommendation Algorithms
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/paper-on-role-of-personality-traits-in.html



Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns. Oh that is exactly ............ guess ............. yes ........ LIFEPROJECT METHOD, ready since 2001!

The next wave of innovation!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/06/the-next-wave-of-innovation.html
 

What comes after the Social Networking wave?
The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test. 
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

 All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.
 
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html